In 2000, Literacy, Technology, and Professional Writing created a memorial scholarship for one of our former graduate students, Alex Weirich. Alex was a superb argumentative writer and thinker who promised to contribute a great deal to the scholarship of rhetoric and composition studies. Alex’s research focused on the history of rhetoric, technology studies, and gender identity. Alex received a Syracuse University fellowship to the composition and cultural rhetoric doctoral program. He was attending this program when he died.
The Alex Weirich Memorial Scholarship is awarded to graduate students in The LTPW English MA program. Applicants should demonstrate outstanding ability and interest in one or more of Alex’s areas of expertise: history of rhetoric, technology, and/or gender identity.
In order to qualify as recipients, students must be enrolled in the LTPW area of the graduate English program. They also must be in their second year of coursework or the equivalent in course hours.
Interested applicants should submit a letter of application stating their academic and career goals; a current transcript; and a writing sample from one of their LTPW courses. This sample must exemplify exceptional writing and thinking skills in one or more of these areas.
Applications must be submitted by September 15 of each year to:
Dr. Laura Gray-Rosendale
The English Department at NAU
Box 6032
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6032
Recipients of this award are notified in mid-October.